I cannot give the noble Baroness the specific details that I was hoping to give her. I do not have the information that I would like, for which I apologise to her. I will write to her properly on the question, which is about two issues. The first is how much leeway—““latitude”” was the word that she used—is given to individual electoral registration officers. As I understand it, the circumstances will be for them to determine. If they have information that suggests that someone should not be on the register, they will conduct their own investigations into whether that information is true. That might include, for example, that someone has died or that someone has moved away. The latitude is that the officers need to be as certain as they can be that it is time to remove someone from the register. That will also apply to the timescales involved. If I can give further clarification, I shall write to the noble Baroness with the details; I apologise for the fact that I cannot give them now.
Electoral Administration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Ashton of Upholland
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 16 March 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills
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Committee proceeding on Electoral Administration Bill.
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